Business Manager Chalk Hills Academy LU4 0NE

Business Manager - The Chalk Hills Academy LU4 0NE
JOB PURPOSE

Responsible for planning, monitoring and managing the day-to-day operations and prioritising needs of the school.

Additionally, responsible for managing relationships and contracts with Advantage School’s suppliers. This includes designing and implementing supplier processes and policies, leading quality assurance, and leading outsourced suppliers in ensuring excellent customer service and value for money is achieved.

Understanding that the Business Manager role is responsible to creating excellent conditions for students to learn and for staff members to thrive.

Learning takes priority over all other matters – the role of the Business Manager is ensuring the building is optimised to enable this.

Helping create the right conditions for learning throughout the school for both staff and students.

• Monitoring and managing the day-to-day operational performance of the school, ensuring that systems and processes are working effectively, addressing any issues or escalating them to the relevant person as required.
• Responsible for the creation, monitoring and testing of the school’s business continuity planning arrangements.
• Advise Principal on the operational position, process, legislation and concerns in a timely manner
• Lead by example, build trust, provide clear direction and hold staff to account as and when required.
• Monitor, assess and review contractual obligations for outsourced services at a school level. To report all unresolved contractual concerns to the Trust Estates and H&S Manager.
• Build strategic works plans for each of the holiday periods to minimise disruption of school life with majority of works being completed.
• Be available in the school holidays to oversee the works
• Strategically plan essential works to ensure works are completed in time with minimal disruption to the normal running of the school.
• Work with all external contractors
• Ensure ancillary services such as catering, cleaning and site-maintenance are monitored effectively on a day-to-day School basis.
• Work with external stakeholders to ensure the school continues to develop excellent relationships.
  
  Liaise with external stakeholder (parents) where appropriate (e.g. meal price increases).
• To meet regularly (fortnightly) with the Trust Estates and H&S Manager regarding operational matters including any emergency protocols in the event of structural or mechanical failures.
• Ensure the Principal has all the required information to make informed decisions on the day-to-day running of the school
• To attend senior leadership team (SLT) meetings to ensure leaders are aware of the operational position and to ensure that the any financial implications are discussed with the finance manager thereafter.
• Lead on whole school operations – be available to oversee the big events of the school throughout the year
• Have a shared vision with the leadership team – to be the no.1 school in Luton by 2028
• Support with the effective administration of the school as requested
• Supporting and encouraging the school’s ethos and its objectives, policies and procedures

• Lead and manage the Site Team, providing coaching and oversight to team members as required.
• To line-manage the site manager and support him/her in ensuring rigorous day-to-day procedures are put in place. To schedule and accompany the site manager on the daily site walk.
• Focused on quality and efficiency – remove obstacles for staff and students
• Provide daily to-do list to site staff – then follow up and quality assure the work to ensure it has been completed to a high standard.
• Have very high standards for the orderly presentation of the building with keen eye for details and quality.
• Ensuring the Site Team is responsible for the assurance of legal compliance testing on campus.

• Responsible for the day-to-day contact and management of dates for Schools Plus, informing them of any school events, cancellations that may need to be made, corrections of faulty equipment and maintenance.
  
  Although not managing people, responsible for overseeing the smooth operations of lettings within the school.
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